The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We really appreciate searches as pointers, especially so now that we have had to turn off comments to avoid hijacking by Russian spammers. This is an inspiring search, here are a few links it led us to. Wikipedia on Quantum Information (see excellent table of links) QIP 2010 – 13th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing …
September 2, 2010 Remind Me Again Why We Pay the Intelligence Bureaucracy? Posted by Karen Kwiatkowski on September 2, 2010 06:48 PM This detailed geo-statistical analysis entitled “The Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs 2004-2009″ has been published, not much more than a month after Wikileaks made available to the …
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Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman James Lee By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 2, 2010 The news broke around 1 p.m. with a few sketchy details. Gunman. Shots. Hostages. Discovery building. Within minutes, there were photos, including an astonishing one of a man clad in shorts, carrying a rifle and …
The Systems Community of Inquiry is an open, worldwide network of individuals interested in systems thinking, the systems sciences and/or systems practice. Inquiry is “an activity which produces knowledge” (Churchman, 1971). We’re more than a community of interest, but less than a community of practice (Wenger, 1999). Our interactions as a community will (i) foster …
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About this talk David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world. About David …
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Beyond belief, but here it is: the “official” explanation of why we are going to waste 12 billion dollars a year on contractors without a clue (vapor-ware). There is zero return on investment here for the taxpayer, only for the contractors and Congress, neither of which will be held accountable for fraud, waste, and …
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August 26, 2010 We’ve already established that open-source technology is entering the mainstream. There are naysayers, and they’re concerned about licensing compliance. An article at zdnet.co.uk entitled “Compliance Scheme Aims to Dispel Open-Source Concerns” outlines the ‘Open Compliance Program.’ The Linux Foundation launched the program to help companies comply with open-source licenses, partly due to …
